have to share

this beautifully written article should be read by everybody who has ever lost hope, despaired, or felt that they couldn't go on after the blow dealt them.

way to get inspired at work.

job

anybody want to make money kashering my friend's kitchen for Pesach?

email me ASAP if yes

and btw, there is no OU-P water this pesach.  feel free to leave comments below.  *grin*

hehe

"Love a girl who holds the world in a paper cup
Drink it up, love her and she'll bring you luck
If ya find she helps your mind, better take her home
Oh dontcha live alone, try to earn what lovers own

Even though we ain't got money
I'm so in love with ya honey
Everything will bring a chain of love
In the mornin' when I rise
Bring a tear of joy to my eyes
And tell me everything's gonna be all right"

if you can't tell - avraham may only be working part-time next year.  in which case we can only have a multitude of people over for shabbat once a month, i'd guess.  : )

let me just state:

mushnicks, i love you!

5a

seems to me i used so pend a lot of time here, and it's never been very productive.  mega-HW to do, ate way too much breakfast/lunch, and want to take a nap for a bit.  it's pretty certain that i will instead entertain myself for a bit by playing on fark, IMing friends, and generally doing nothing productive.

www.wadsworth.com

hm

i got this from my teacher today, please feel free to share opinions:

Subject: Thoughts to Ponder

NathanLopesCardozo

Why they Hate us at The Hague

Indeed it is difficult for all other nations of the world to live in
the presence of the Jews. It is irritating and most uncomfortable. 

        The Jews embarrass the world as they have done things which are
beyond the imaginable. They have become moral strangers since the day
their forefather Abraham introduced the world to high ethical standards
and to the fear of Heaven. They brought the world the Ten Commandments
which many nations prefer to defy. They violated the rules of history
by staying alive, totally at odds with common sense and historical
evidence.

        They outlived all their former enemies, including vast empires
such as the Romans and the Greeks. They angered the world with their
return to their homeland after 2000 years of exile and after the murder
of six million of their brothers and sisters. They aggravated mankind
by building, in the wink of an eye, a democratic State which others
were not able to create in even hundreds of years. They built living
monuments such as the duty to be holy and the privilege to serve one’s
fellow men. They had their hands in every human progressive endeavor,
whether in science, medicine, psychology or any other discipline, while
totally out of proportion to their actual numbers. They gave the world
the Bible and even their “savior”.

Jews taught the world not to accept the world as it is but to
transform it, yet only a few nations wanted to listen. Moreover, the
Jews introduced the world to one God, yet only a minority wanted to
draw the moral consequences. 

        So the nations of the world realize that they would have been
lost without the Jews. And while their subconscious tries to remind
them of how much of Western civilization is framed in terms of concepts
first articulated by the Jews, they do anything to suppress it. They
deny that Jews remind them of a higher purpose of life and the need to
be honorable, and do anything to escape its consequences.  It is simply
too much to handle for them, too embarrassing to admit, and above all
too difficult to live by.

        So the nations of the world decided once again to go out of its
way in order to find a stick to hit the Jews. The goal: to prove that
Jews are as immoral and guilty of massacre and genocide as some of
themselves are. All this in order to hide and justify their own failure
to even protest when six million Jews were brought to the
slaughterhouses of Auschwitz and Dachau; so as to wipe out the moral
conscience of which the Jews remind them.  And they found a stick. 
Nothing could be more gratifying for them than to find the Jews into a
struggle with another people (who are completely terrorized by their
own leaders) against whom the Jews, against their best wishes, have to
defend themselves in order to survive. With great satisfaction, the
world allows and initiates the rewriting of history so as to fuel the
rage of yet another people against the Jews. This in spite of the fact
that the nations understand very well that peace between the parties
could have come a long time ago, if only the Jews would have had a fair
chance. Instead, they happily jumped on the wagon of hate so as to
justify their jealousy of the Jews and their incompetence to deal with
their own moral issues.

        When Jews look at the bizarre play, taking place in The Hague,
they can only smile as this artificial game once more proves how the
world paradoxically admits the Jews' uniqueness. It is in their need to
undermine the Jews that they actually raise them.

Tips for Junk mail

this is what we do at work:

Andy Rooney's tips for telemarketers

(1)The three little words are: "Hold On, Please..."

Saying this, while putting down your phone and walking off (instead of hanging-up immediately) would make each telemarketing call so much more time-consuming that boiler room sales would grind to a halt.

Then when you eventually hear the phone company's "beep-beep-beep" tone, you know it's time to go back and hang up your handset, which has efficiently completed its task.

(2) Do you ever get those annoying phone calls with no one on the other end?

This is a telemarketing technique where a machine makes phone calls and records the time of day when a person answers the phone.

This technique is used to determine the best time of day for a "real" sales person to call back and get someone at home.

What you can do after answering, if you notice there is no one there, is to immediately start hitting your # button on the phone, 6 or 7 times, as quickly as possible. This confuses the machine that dialed the call and it kicks your number out of their system.

(3) Another Good Idea:

When you get "ads" enclosed with your phone or utility bill, return these "ads" with your payment. Let the sending companies throw their own junk mail away.

When you get those "pre-approved" letters in the mail for everything from credit cards to 2nd mortgages and similar type junk, do not throw away the return envelope.

Most of these come with postage-paid return envelopes, right?

It costs them more than the regular 37cents postage "IF" and when they receive them back.

It costs them nothing if you throw them away! The postage was around 50 cents before! the last increase and it is according to the weight. In that case, why not get rid of some of your other junk mail and put it in these cool little, postage-paid return envelopes. One of Andy Rooney's (60 minutes) ideas. Send an ad for your local chimney cleaner to American Express. Send a pizza coupon to Citibank. If you didn't get anything else that day, then just send them their blank application back!

If you want to remain anonymous, just make sure your name isn't on anything you send them.

You can even send the envelope back empty if you want to just to keep them guessing!

Eventually, the banks and credit card companies will begin getting their own junk back in the mail.

Let's let them know what it's like to get lots of junk mail, and best of all they're paying for it...Twice!

Let's help keep our postal service busy since they are saying that e-mail is cutting into their business profits, and that's why they need to increase postage costs again. You get the idea !

emptying brain onto blog

first of all, funniest email i've received yet at the OU was this girl trying to determine if hemp seeds are Kosher for Pesach.

second, i'm getting married in 12 weeks, and it seems so far away.  i'm so impatient and jittery...

third, more fun with sociology:
i'm doing HW now about hwo to conduct studies and how to determine what the conceptualization process was behind a study we were presented with.  it's cool and all, but i find that i can no longer use english to express myself.  weird.

nice engagemant party last night for bayla and JJ.  if you weren't there, you should have been.  mmm...  i'm hungry just remembering what we ate.

it occurred to me as i struggled to sleep last night that i will be giving brachot to my friends at the wedding, and i shoud sit down and think about what i want to say to each.  mission of th next few weeks is to get that all thought out.

k, back to HW.  btw - avraham is totally the cutest person ever.  well, right after me.  *grin*

also, if someone can explain to me what this trackback thing is...  ??

procrastinating

it's amazing how fascinating eveyrthign gets when you have a shitload of work to do.  ooh! look!  i have fingernails.  must inspect them a while, realize it's 2:38 PM and i'm not going to get my homework done at work tomorrow, realize i have an engagement party @ 8, give up, take a nap.

it's amazing ive made it this far.

gtg, there's a particle of dust dancing in the light that seems to be mesmerizing...

blog blog blog blog blog

mazal tov on all the engagements of the week (well, that have been celebrated this week):

Daniel Sichel and Marti Davidson
Sholomo Druckman and Esther Zlochower
Bayla Parkoff and JJ Lewis

fun fun fun fun fun fun !!!!!!!

i have soooo much to blog about, and no time.  gr.  i'm totally taking a 3 minute break from work, cause i need it, and i miss blogging, and ...  hi bloggy blog!  i'm in a v good mood, not sure why.  my sweater smells like fried food, which is definitely helping.

ah, thoughts on starsky and hutch - what a great movie.  i thoroughly enjoyed it.  the great clothes, the beautiful cars, the beautiful girls, the awesome music...  for once they made a movie which wasn't making fun of the show so much as celebrating it.  thank you, than you, thank you.  everybody walked out laughing.  so nice.

now i run away

Ides of March

It's documented by far greater writers than I that March 15th is not a prosperous day for history.

This article testifies to the same.

late night @ work

conclusion of the day:

dumb ppl should not have access to email.

pre-pesach surge in funniness as i respond to consumer questions here in the Kashruth dept.  hehehe...  You people trust me to tell you the TRUTH.  hehehe

when telemarketers get desparate

ever heard of adnoodle.com? didn't think so. turns out, telemarketers will now pay you to listen to their shpiel.

i actually considered signing up. til i remembered that i hate telemarketers. (sorry shomo!)

thoughts

my father just showed me a news item that was far more serious than anything i've been talking about lately (cardinals, the passion)...

nava applebaum's family used her weddding dress to make a parochet for kever rochel. i think that's beautiful.

(from the JTA)

(JTA) - Victim's dress becomes Torah cover

The wedding dress that an Israeli terror victim never got to wear was remade into a curtain for a Torah ark. A ceremony Thursday will mark the transformation of Nava Applebaum's dress, which will be used at Rachel's Tomb in Bethlehem. At the ceremony, the Kever Rachel Fund will establish a fund for Israeli couples who are having trouble paying for a wedding and the costs of setting up a house. Applebaum was killed on the eve of her wedding, along with her father and five others, in a September 2003 suicide bombing at a Jerusalem cafe. Checks for the fund can be sent to Kever Rachel Fund, P.O. Box 1181, Teaneck, N.J., 07666.




back to less serious stuff, the fight rages on between mel gibson and abe foxman. so stupid... rumor has it that mel wants to make a new movie, this time about the maccabees, and some smart dude suggested he do bar kochba, and ... who cares? he'll do what he wnats, and we can't stop him, we can only aggravate the situation. why does it matter so much if he makes a ridicule of our history? don't we all watch (and secretly love) the 10 commandements, green goo and all?

ppl need to chill

thoughts for the day, and out...